September 20, 2008 – 15:01
The VIA C7 processor also has padlock encryption acceleration support. Linux support was added a while ago. First, the automatically load the padlock module, add the /etc/sysconfig/modules/via-padlock.modules file. #!/bin/sh for i in padlock; do modprobe $i >/dev/null 2>&1 done Second, to use it for internal kernel encryption, add to /etc/modprobe.conf. alias aes padlock Third, OpenSSL [...]
September 20, 2008 – 14:30
The J7F4 mini-ITX motherboard that I got for my home server has a VIA C7 processor. One of the feature of the processor is the PadLock Security Engine with hardware RNG. This is especially useful on a server since they are limited in entropy sources. Linux kernel has support for the VIA hardware RNG in [...]
After OSCON ended, I went to the Oregon Brewers Festival on Friday afternoon. This is the first time I have gone after living in Portland for five years and loving beer. I rode my bike downtown; they had guarded bike parking. The cost was $4 for the mug, $1 for tokens which give a taste [...]
On Friday, I made it to the morning keynotes. None of them were really informative but were entertaining and funny. I attended ZFS: Bringing Terabytes Under Control by Jay Edwards. He mainly talked about using ZFS on Solaris for large storage systems. The biggest advantage of ZFS is the nice management tools for creating pools [...]
After staying up late on Wednesday night, I slept late on Thursday and missed the keynotes. I went to Matt Tucker’s talk on Jingle: Cutting Edge Open Source VoIP describing the Jingle extension to Jabber that allows voice chat and other multimedia. Jingle is the standardization of the Google Talk protocol for voice chat. One [...]
In the afternoon, I went to more OSCON sessions. First, I went to Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell by Simon Peyton-Jones, the same guy who gave the keynote talk I went to. This time, he was talking about extending the Haskell compiler to do data parallelism. Flat data parallelism is when a computation is split [...]
I am going to the OSCON sessions today and the rest of the week. I missed most of the keynotes this morning. I did Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming by Simon Peyton-Jones and Haskell guy at Microsoft. He described the idea of transaction memory as the alternative to locking for concurrent programming. Transactional memory basically [...]
My coworkers and I have gotten addicated to Starcraft again. The question is how to run it since my only computers are Linux and Mac. Starcraft under Wine on Linux works pretty well. There are some issues with the display changing resolution that makes it hard to switch back to the desktop and resizes programs. [...]
On Saturday, I bought a new grill in preparation for my annual party on Wednesday. I was tired of the using the old charcoal grill that I inherited with my apartment. It was pain clean out the old ashes, a pain to light the charcoal even with a chimney starter, a pain to grill just [...]
I got my passport today after just a week which eliminates all my worries about one for my trip to St Martin. It looks like the passport was issued on Friday and sent overnight. I was surprised that it showed up so quickly when there have been lots of reports of delays. Maybe a renewal [...]